Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-12-16
TALMAGES SERMON.
The Weel'y Discourse Of the Great
Brooklyn Preacher
Subject; The SnlutatiOn E'rOni
the Chariot"

was celeIrateu tog last driving, Jehu, the
warrior and king, returns from LATHE. But
seeing JehoaadaH. an acquaintance, by the
waysi lie, he shouts "Whoal whoa!" to the
latIere,l span. Then, leluing over to Jehon-
adab, Jrhu sllautes him in the words Of the
lext-woTds not more appropriate for that
hour aud that place than for this hour aid
place
Is thine heart rights ] should like to hear
Of your phrsica heath. Well myself, like
to have evergb y else we'll; and so might
ask: Is Your eyesght righs. your hearing
right your Ii ryes right, your lungs right,
oar entire body right! But | ami busy to-
Gay taking did gnosiS Of the more important
spiritual con itious.
| shoGli lake TO ear OF your financial well
fare, | want everybody to have plenty of
money. ample apparel, large storehouse, and
comt'I5 tb!e lesi'ien e. And might ask: la
yOur bus ness right, your income right, your
"oritly SnrroGn lin 8 right. But what are
these tlnanci Il questions compared with the
ngu ry as to whether you have been able to
ay y0ur delt' to GCd; as TO whether you
Ire running yourself by the long credit sys-
en OF the ioIit ! have known men to have
10 mIre than one .oGt OF bread at time, and
YET to own a government bond of heaven
worth more than the whole material uni
verse.
Tie question ask you to-day is not in re-
gard to oar il b $. ] make no inquiry
about your integrity, or Your chastity, or
your sooricty. do not mean 70 stand on
III outside of the gate AMI ring the b III; bu5
coming up the ST p5 | open the door and
conie 10 the priIa . apartment of tie soul;
and with the eaTneStneS5 OF a man that must
give el account for this days work [ cry
naC: 81 man, q woman immortal, is thine
healt right"
will not insult you by an argument to
prove shat we are BY nature all wrong. II
tGere he u factory explosion and the smoke
tack be ulsst, AMI the wheels be broken in
two and the engine unjointed, and the pom
derouS bars be twisted, and a man should
ioo.i III and say that nothing vas the matt
yUn would pronounce him a fool. Well, it
neeis no acumen to discover that our nature
is All at@iSt and aSllew and un iointed. The
thirg 10 snt work glt The biggest trouble
we hlve in The world Is with our souls
Men SOmetinies say that thoagn Jleir lives
may notbe just right, their heart is all right.
Impossible! a farmer never puts the poorest
apples on top of his barrel; nor does the mer-
chant place the meanest goods in his show
window. The best part OF us is our outward
life. do not stop to discuss whether We all
teil III Ada II, fO- we have been our own
Adam, and have all eaten OF the forbidden
fra t, and have been tnrned ont Of the para
disc OK holiness and p?ace; and though the
flaming sword that stood at the gate to keep
us out has changed position an comes behind
to drive us in, we viii rot 60.
1he BlO.e account OF US Is not exaggerated
wAen it says that we are poor an | wretched
and miserable and bljnd and naked. Poor:
thu wretch that stands Ghiyering on our door
slop on col i day is not SO much in n2ei of
bread as VIC are of spiritual help. Bind:
why, the man whose eyes perisned in the
powder blast, and who for these ten years
has gone feeling his way from street TO street,
is not in such utter darkness as we. Naked:
why, there is not one rag Of holiness left to
| hide the shame OF our sin. Sick: why, the
leproiy has eaten into the head and the heart
and tue hands an the feet, and the maras-
mus OF an everlasting wasting away has al
ready seized on some Of us.
First we need reDenting heart Ii for the
last ten, twenty or forty years of life we have
been gcing on i'll the wrong way it is time
that we turned around and started In tho
opposite direction, Ii we offend our friends
we are glad 10 apologize God is our best
friend, and yet how many OF us have never
apolOgized for the wrongs wehaFe done Himl
There is nothing that We SO much need to
get rid Of as II. 1t is horrible black mon-
steT. 1t polluted Eden. 1t kille i Christ. 1t
has blasted the world. Men keep dogs in
kennels, and rabbits in warren, and cattle
in pen. What a man that would lie who
wou shut them up in his parlor. But this
foul dog OF sin, ami these herds OF transgres-
zion, we have entertained TOR many a long
year i'll our heart, which should be the clean
est, brightest room III all our nature Out
with the vile herIl Beyone, ye beEoulers of
an immortal nature! ,Turn out the beasts
and let Christ come in!
A heatheu came to all early Christian who
had the reputat on of curing diseases. The
! Christian slid: You must have all your idols
| destroyed The heathen gave TO the Chris
tian the key to his house, that he might go in
and dc st oy the idols. He battered TO pieces
ali he saw, butstill the man did not get we'll,
Fl,t.t,N Il,
| some idol in your house not yet. destroyed :"
| Tho heather confessed that there was one Idol
/ of beaten gold that he could not bear to give
| up. After while when that was destroyed,
| i'll answer to the prayer of the Christian the
sick mau got well.
! Many a man has awakened In his dying
hour TO find his sEs all about him. They
clambered up on the right side OF the bed.
| on the left side, and over the headboard, and
over the fcotboard, and horribly deyoured
| the soul.
| Repent the voice Ce'estial Giles,
Nor longtI dare d,lay:
The wretch that scorns the mandate dies
And meets H'"cry dq".
Again, we need believing heart. A good
many years ago weary one went up one of
the hills of Asia Minor, and with two logs on
his back cried out to al the world, offering
to carry their sins and sorrows. They pur-
sued him. They slapped him in the face.
lUty HtUChtu ulIU, w llell u6 RTOuu5u lH6y
groaned. They shook their fists at him.
| They spit on him. They bounded him as
though he were u wild beast. His healing of
the sick, his sight giving to the blind, his
mercy TO the outcast silenced not the revenge
of tha world. His prayers and bensdictlons
We're lost in that whirlwind OF eSecration,
Away with him! Away with him!
All it was not merely the two pieces OF
wood that he carried; it was the transgres-
sions OF the race, the anguish of the ages the
wrath of God, the Sorrows of hell the stu
pendcns in erests of an unending eternity.
| No wonder his back bent. No wonder the
blood started from every pore. No wonder
that he crouched under torture that made
the sun faint, and the everlasting hills trem.
bic, and the dead rush up in their winding
sheets as he cried, "If it be possible let this
cnp pass from me-" But the cup did not
pass. None TO comfort.
There he hangs! What has that hand done
that it should be thus crushed in the
paint 1t has been healing the lame aud
wiping away tears What has that foot been
doing that it should be so laceratedl 1t has
been going about doing good. OF what has
the victim been guilty? Guilty of saving a
world. Tell me, We heavens and earth, was
there ever such another criminal! Was there
| ever such u crimei On that hill OF carnage,
that sunless day. amid thos bowling rioters,
may not your SINS and mine have perished
| believe it.
Oh the ransom has been paid Those
arms of Jesus were stretched out so widt
that when lie brought them together
again they might embrace the world
Oh, that | might, out of the blossom,
Of the spring, or the flaming foli e.
OF the autumn, make one wreath OF
my Lordl Oh. that all the triumphal archie;
OF the world could he swung in one gateway
where the King of Glory might come in
Oh. that all the harps ami trumpets and or
gans OF earthly music might in one anthem
speal. his prais,l
Puj what were earthly flowers to him whc
wa.keth amid the snow OF ths white lilies o
| Heaven What were arches Of earthly ma.
| Ennl.u tn him WIN hntl nhout hia Throne &